Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nova-C IM-2 & Others

This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1), which is to be the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Moon. PRIME-1 consists of two instruments: TRIDENT drill and Msolo mass spectrometer. Also on board are: * Lunar Trailblazer, a small (class D) lunar orbiter, part of NASA's SIMPLEx program, that will detect and map water on the lunar surface to determine how its form, abundance, and location relate to geology. Its mission is to aid in the understanding of lunar water and the Moon's water cycle. * Odin, a spacecraft for AstroForge, a company that plans to mine asteroid resources. Odin intends to head into deep space to observe near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB5 in preparation for their first retrieval mission. Odin will fly by the asteroid at a distance of about 1 kilometer, arriving 11 months after launch. * CHIMERA GEO 1, a transfer spacecraft by Epic Aerospace to a geostationary orbit, with the aim of covering an orbital position. For this launch, CHIMERA-GEO is carrying an unidentified 16U cubesat manifested by Exolaunch.

Lunar Exploration · Lunar Orbit (LO)

• B1083 · flight 9 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ A Shortfall of Gravitas · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 13-1 · zone record 161/162

• SpaceX Nova-C IM-2 & Others — The Space Devs
• Intuitive Machines-2 Launch to the Moon (Official NASA Broadcast) — NASA
• SpaceX - Falcon 9 - PRIME-1 (IM-2) - LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - February 26, 2025 — SPACE AFFAIRS
• Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches IM-2 Moon mission from Kennedy Space Center — Spaceflight Now
• 🚀SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches IM-2 to the Moon — NASASpaceflight
• IM-2 Mission — SpaceX

1. T−38MGO for Prop Load
2. T−35MStage 1 LOX Load
3. T−35MProp Load
4. T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
5. T−7MEngine Chill
6. T−1MTank Press
7. T−1MStartup
8. T−45SGO for Launch
9. T−3SIgnition
10. P0DLiftoff
11. T+1M18SMax-Q
12. T+2M30SMECO
13. T+2M34SStage 2 Separation
14. T+2M42SSES-1
15. T+3M27SFairing Separation
16. T+6M15SEntry Burn Startup
17. T+6M41SEntry Burn Shutdown
18. T+7M55SSECO-1
19. T+8M1SStage 1 Landing Burn
20. T+8M31SStage 1 Landing
21. T+36M25SSES-2
22. T+37M26SSECO-2
23. T+43M38SPayload Separation
24. T+47M28SPayload Separation
25. T+47M48SPayload Separation
26. T+48M8SPayload Separation

• Nova-C IM-2 acquisition of signal confirmed.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 2/27/2025 · source

• All spacecraft deployed.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 2/27/2025 · source

• Liftoff.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 2/27/2025 · source

• Official Webcast by NASA has started

  LL2 · 2/26/2025 · source

• Tweaked T-0.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 2/26/2025 · source

• Weather is >95% favorable for launch.

  Nosu · 2/25/2025 · source

• GO for launch.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 2/22/2025 · source

• Added launch time.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 2/4/2025 · source

• Added approximate launch time.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 2/1/2025 · source

• NET February 26th

  hitura-nobad · 1/9/2025 · source